CPAN -> RPM, was: Beta 4.50.4 released -- faster than 4.49

Richard Siddall richard.siddall at ELIRION.NET
Fri Jan 6 20:32:13 GMT 2006


Steve Freegard wrote:
[snip]
> 
> Personally I use the cpan2rpm script http://perl.arix.com/cpan2rpm/
> which you can tell to ignore requirements:
> 
[snip]

FWIW, I've been using Ovid (http://search.cpan.org/~gyepi/Ovid-0.06/)
recently, mainly because it's recursive and builds RPMs for all the
dependencies.  (OTOH, it's not perfect: it generates horrible .spec
files and doesn't handle embedded Bundles or Module::Build Makefiles
correctly.)

Regards,

	Richard Siddall

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